Moscow's big stick: amid the chaos of a disintegrating society, the KGB is amassing new powers and wielding ever greater political and economic influence. From: U.S. News & World Report | Date: March 25, 1991| Author: Trimble, Jeff | COPYRIGHT 1991 All rights reserved. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Amid the chaos of a disintegrating society, the KGB is amassing new powers and wielding ever greater political and economic influence KGB. In whispered conversations, it was code-named the committee." or "the organs" by those few Soviet citizens who dared mention the dreaded Committee for State Security. and perestroika have made the Komitet po Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti more public --and more powerful -than at any time in its history. The KGB is a model of stability compared wit...